Models are 34-by-44-inch posters that detail a specific technical area. These models are intended to be used with corresponding articles on TechNet. These models are created by using Visio 2010. You can modify the Visio files to illustrate how you plan to incorporate SharePoint 2013 in your own environment.

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For BDMs and architects, this model describes the platform options for SharePoint 2013 — SharePoint in Office 365, on-premises hybrid with Office 365, Azure, and on-premises only deployments. It includes an overview of each architecture, recommendations, license requirements, and lists of architect and IT Pro tasks for each platform. Several SharePoint solutions on Azure are highlighted.

This poster describes and illustrates how to install SharePoint Server 2013 on the Azure IaaS platform, including using SQL Server AlwaysOn for high availability. For more information, see Deploy SharePoint with SQL Server AlwaysOn.

This model describes a streamlined approach for building topologies. The distribution of components is intended to maximize system resources of server hardware. Streamlined architectures include Front-end servers, batch-processing servers, and database servers.

This model provides an overview of topology concepts. Example topologies are based on traditional approaches to building SharePoint architectures with Web servers, application servers, and database servers.

Describes and illustrates the planning process, installation steps, and configuration tasks required to perform and implement the Distributed Cache service in a SharePoint 2013 farm. Use this model with the following articles:

Discusses the different deployment architectures for SharePoint Server 2013 and the effect those deployment architectures have on the social features. For more information about social features, see the following articles:

Illustrates a typical corporate deployment, with the most common types of sites represented. The two samples differ in the type of site collections that are implemented — path-based site collections or host-named site collections.

A poster that shows the major governance areas (IT governance, information management, and application management) and summarizes the key information you need to understand about each area. Use this poster with the articles in Governance planning in SharePoint 2013.

This design sample shows the logical architecture and interaction of search components, and an example of a fault-tolerant server farm that provides enterprise search for a content corpus that contains approximately 40 million items. For more information, see the following articles: